I taught MANY Chinese students and one time I asked them how to tell the difference between Chinese and other Oriental Asians.
The answer:
Han Chinese(92% of all Chinese) have perfectly ROUND nostrils. The rest of the PLANET EARTH has oblong-shaped nostrils. It's true. There is a minority race of Chinese in far Western China who are NOT Han Chinese.
Lol. I would say to some student sometimes: "Oh look up there, it's a ... whatever." They would lift their heads and I could see the nostrils. It's true. Try it.
ROUND nostrils = Han Chinese
Oblong nostrils = the rest of the human race.
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From Google: The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, where some 91.59% of the population was classified as Han Chinese (~1.2 billion). Besides the majority Han Chinese, 55 other ethnic groups are recognized in mainland China by the PRC government, numbering approximately 105 million people, mostly concentrated in the northwest, north, northeast, south, and southwest but with some in central interior areas.
The major minority ethnic groups are
Zhuang (16.9 million),
Hui (10.5 million),
Manchu (10.3 million),
Uyghur (10 million),
Miao (9.4 million),
Yi (8.7 million),
Tujia (8.3 million),
Tibetan (6.2 million),
Mongol (5.9 million),
Dong (2.8 million),
Buyei (2.8 million),
Yao (2.7 million),
Bai (1.9 million),
Korean (1.8 million),
Hani (1.6 million),
Li (1.4 million),
Kazakh (1.4 million), and
Dai (1.2 million).
WHODA thunk?
Oh.
That’s interesting. I’m going to take a look at that now.
I never heard that. Thank you much. :D